Trademark Registration

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Trademarks help you distinguish your products and services from competitors and help identify you as the source. It is a name or symbol that a company uses on its products, and another company cannot legally use that.

Benefits of Trademark registration

  • Legal Protection to Business
  • Trust Building for business
  • Valuable Asset of business
  • Cost-Effective: Trademark Registration is very cost-efficient.

What can be trademarked ?

  1. Name: A name including personal or surname of the applicant in business or the signature of the person.
  2. Words: A word which is not being directly descriptive of the character or quality of the goods / service.
  3. Numbers: Alphanumeric or Letters or numerals or any combination thereof. For example 555 brand.
  4. Images: Image, symbol, monograms, 3-dimensional shapes, letters etc. For example the tick in Nike logo.
  5. Sound: Sound marks in audio format. For example, the sound in the ad jingle.

Types of Trademark symbols

  • TM (™): TM symbol signifies that the trademark or device mark has been applied with the concerned authorities and is yet to be registered.
  • R (Ⓡ) : R symbol denotes that the applied trademark or device mark is registered from the concerned authority.
  • SM (℠) : Service Mark symbol signifies that the service or device mark has been applied with the concerned authorities and is yet to be registered.

Documents for Trademark registration

For Proprietorship Firm
  1. Tradename /Logo (if any)
  2. Aadhar card of Proprietor
  3. Signed Power of Attorney (for Appointment of Attorney to file Trademark)
  4. Signed User Affidavit (Only for Prior usage of marks)

For Private Limited, LLP & other small entities

  1. Tradename /Logo (if any)Company Master Data of Entry
  2. Signed Power of Attorney (For Appointment of Attorney to apply on the applicant's behalf)
  3. Signed User Affidavit (Only for Prior usage for marks)
  4. MSME Registration certificate
  5. Board Resolution for Appointments of Authorised Signatory

For Society & Trust

  1. Logo (if any)
  2. Registration certificate
  3. Signed Power of Attorney (For Appointment of Attorney to apply on applicant's behalf)
  4. Signed User Affidavit (Only for Prior usage for mark

For Joint Applicant

  1. For Joint Applicant
  2. Copy of Aadhar Card of both the applicants
  3. Signed Power of Attorney (For Appointment of Attorney to apply on the applicant's behalf)
  4. Signed User Affidavit (Only for Prior usage for marks)